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Determination of plutonium-241 in low-level radwastes using radiochemical separation combined with LSC, alpha spectrometer and ICP-MS

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Two kinds of measuring methods were described for the determination of Plutonium-241 in low level wastes in this study. Plutonium isotopes were separated and purified by highly selective UTEVA and TRU resin. LSC, alpha spectrometry, and ICP-MS were applied and compared for determination of Plutonium-241. There is a good agreement with the analytical results and also shows that the different analytical methods have high chemical recovery yields.

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Su, TY., Tsai, TL. Determination of plutonium-241 in low-level radwastes using radiochemical separation combined with LSC, alpha spectrometer and ICP-MS. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 319, 447–452 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6362-7

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